It’s week thirteen of the semester and I no longer pretend I’m going to catch up. Read, make, watch and blog half of what I want to for Connected Courses? Revise and submit the Belyaev fox paper? Pick up the threads of chapter four of Space Dogs? Nope. Not going to happen. Because when you […]
At a time when the world seems awash in an ever-expanding sea of information, Vannevar Bush’s As We May Think reminds us of the promises and challenges of making sense of a world increasingly recorded, mediated, and represented by digital technologies. In the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Bush summoned scientists to develop technologies that […]
Despite the best efforts of a recalcitrant widget, a freshly pressed motherblog is just about ready for a new cohort of seminarians. The New Media Seminar kicks off tomorrow, and while the syllabus addresses the “Awakening of the Digital Imagination” (i.e. the intellectual and cultural history of new media up to Web 2.0), the workings […]
This was not the advice I was looking for when I consulted my Old Media version of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies this morning. The new media version’s offering was more intriguing: “Be Dirty,” it suggested. Ok. I started cleaning my office. Boring, but not dirty. The opposite of dirty in fact. The instruction to “Be […]